Make Your Mess Your Message

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I write about pain, struggle and loss because it’s relatable on a global scale. I write about addiction, depression, and mental health matters because it’s the struggle and pain I know best.

I spent the better part of two decades ruining the good. I know how to make a mess of almost anything. Ruining is easy, it’s putting it back together that takes real work and courage.

Addiction is ugly. It turns good people into shells of their true, former, and authentic selves. There is no cure and there will never be one.

If sharing my struggle helps even one person who reads about it, it’s all been worth it. Vulnerability and sharing openly and honestly is the closest thing I’ve ever found to a cure for this disease.

I’m of the belief, that there aren’t people whose lives haven’t been touched or affected by alcoholism or addiction, there are only those who aren’t aware of how it has or refuse to come to terms with it. Denial is a powerful thing, and boy would I know.

I’m a believer in not believing in regret. This is because we need the bad experiences as much as we need the great ones, just for very different reasons. Without one, the other would by definition, cease to exist. It is the intertwining of the two that makes us who…